January 2009
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto...
alexbalk:
The weakest argument made for excessive earnings is that only by offering a fortune do you attract the right person. It should always have been obvious that that’s a truism which proves its very opposite. If it’s only the fortune that makes the job suitable for the man then the man is by definition unsuitable for the job. Even banking – the one place where the rapacity criterion might...
The Intellectual Underclass
First, an acknowledgement:
“What almost no prospective graduate students can understand is the extent to which doctoral education in the humanities socializes idealistic, naïve, and psychologically vulnerable people into a profession with a very clear set of values. It teaches them that life outside of academe means failure, which explains the large numbers of graduates who labor for...
Sharing is Creepy →
roamin:
Britannica Blog
“A while back, I wrote about the affliction of avatar anxiety, in which one’s self-consciousness about one’s online self amplifies one’s self-consciousness about one’s actual self. Here’s the nub:
Your online self … is entirely self-created, and because it determines your identity and social standing in an internet community, each decision you make about how you...
“7. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, last line of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. For effect, I like to combine the two most widely read translations and say that it means, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must pass over in silence.”
“In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our...”
– Bruce Sterling (via syntheticpubes)
“Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -...”
– Andy Warhol (via theyoungmachine)
How Google Is Making Us Smarter (Discover... →
clothedinsky:
psychotherapy:
More significantly, the ominous warnings feed on a popular misconception of how the mind works. We tend to think of the mind as separated from the world; we imagine information trickling into our senses and reaching our isolated minds, which then turn that information into a detailed picture of reality. The Internet and iPhones seem to be crashing the gate of the...
Chris Walla - Two-Fifty
There isn’t room...
